The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.

I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I go berserk just forcing myself not to go berserk, just trying to see truth in the lie, to see it in full context, and in a dimension in which it has got to be more than just a lie, possibly the profoundest kind of truth.

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

My work is writing, but my real work is being.

I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.

I believe in anything that works.